The Phoenix Critics Circle (PCC) has selected its winners for the best in film for 2025 and Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another led with six wins, including Best Picture, Director, Screenplay and Supporting Actor for Benicio Del Toro.

Timothée Chalamet (Marty Supreme) and Jessie Buckley (Hamnet) won Best Actor and Best Actress, respectively, Chalamet’s second win today after Chicago. Amy Madigan won Supporting Actress for Weapons.

Here is the complete list of winners.

Best Picture: One Battle After Another

Best Director: Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another

Best Actor: Timothée Chalamet, Marty Supreme
Best Actress: Jessie Buckley, Hamnet
Best Supporting Actor: Benicio del Toro, One Battle After Another
Best Supporting Actress: Amy Madigan, Weapons

Best Screenplay: Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another

Best Animated Film: KPop Demon Hunters
Best Documentary: The Perfect Neighbor
Best Foreign Language Film: Sentimental Value

Best Cinematography: Michael Bauman, One Battle After Another
Best Score: Jonny Greenwood, One Battle After Another
Best Stunt Coordination: Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

Best Comedy Film: The Naked Gun
Best Science Fiction Film: Frankenstein
Best Horror Film: Sinners

Lifetime Achievement in Filmmaking Award: David Lynch
Special Recognition Award: Graham Greene for his contribution to Native Americans in film

Erik Anderson Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.

He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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